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Your letters: Do we need another revolution to make the rich pay fair share?

Thu., Nov. 9, 2017

Why, after years of ignoring tax havens, do leaders care? Walkom, Nov. 8

Columnist Thomas Walkom talks about how low taxes drive corporate profits and then about how trade deals bring lower labour costs to Canada. Doesn’t he see a problem here?

On the one hand, with corporations and the wealthy paying less tax, the burden is pushed more and more onto people who are just trying to support themselves and their families. On the other hand, lowering labour costs means those same people are forced to earn less. We get hit from both ends.

This situation is driving more and more people into poverty, for the benefit of the wealthy. How are people supposed to live when they keep losing so much?

Perhaps it’s time to start putting the population, as a whole, ahead of blatant greed at the top. Those at the top should remember past revolutions, such as those in France, Russia and Cuba, when people got fed up with the upper class taking so much. We could be headed that way.

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